Abduction By Shelagh Delaney Summary

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It can be very challenging to cope with other people´s expectations of how they want you to be, what career they want you to have, and how they want you to live your life - for example: parents. This can at times be overwhelming, to a point where one gets confused instead. An even harder thing is to deal with your own expectations on who you want to be. This is the topic the short story ‘Abduction’, written by Shelagh Delaney, discusses with the 16 year old brother experiencing it all.
In this short story we get to know a young brother and his older sister, Ann. The sister tries to give her brother a life, where he doesn’t have to think about anything, because she is there for him. This makes the brother slide away from everything he cares about in his life. In the beginning of the story, we hear that the brother is successful because he gets an education and a job (though he didn’t like any of it), but as the story progresses, the brother falls hopelessly in love, and tries to break free from the overprotective environment, his sister Ann gave him. This is an impossible task, and suddenly tables turn upside down - he is no longer successful, and to cope with that, he begins to drink. As a result of this, he ends up losing his life to …show more content…

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